# House stenographer snaps, starts ranting about Jesus and Freemasons **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 17, 2013, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-stenographer-snaps-starts-ranting-about-jesus-and-freemasons/671471 "2013-10-17T10:40:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-stenographer-snaps-starts-ranting-about-jesus-and-freemasons/671471/21 "2013-10-17T14:54:53Z")
I’m not going to assume this is a religious/political thing rather than a mental health problem until we know more about it. However I will say that if she’d screamed that stuff at Obama, she’d have a $2 million PAC by now. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-stenographer-snaps-starts-ranting-about-jesus-and-freemasons/671471/22 "2013-10-17T14:56:01Z")
I wonder if anyone will be going back through her transcripts to compare them against the recordings (if they don’t already have such a review as part of their process)? ---
**Author:** ![USCDiver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uscdiver/32/354_2.png) [@USCDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/USCDiver)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-stenographer-snaps-starts-ranting-about-jesus-and-freemasons/671471/23 "2013-10-17T15:01:42Z")
> [@aNewLeaf](#): > > Wasn’t it? I know Jefferson wasn’t a Freemason, but most of the rest were, right? That’s what she said… > [@CrazyStenoLady](#): > > The greatest deception here is this is not one nation under God. It never was. Had it been, [The Constitution] would not have been… written by Freemasons Yes, I speak [del]jive[/del] crazy. ---
**Author:** ![hotflungwok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@hotflungwok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hotflungwok)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-stenographer-snaps-starts-ranting-about-jesus-and-freemasons/671471/24 "2013-10-17T15:26:43Z")
I’ve seen this before. Isn’t this called glossolalia? Where people just babble nonsense while having a religious experience? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-stenographer-snaps-starts-ranting-about-jesus-and-freemasons/671471/25 "2013-10-17T15:28:57Z")
No, glossolila doesn’t involve real words. This is just conspiracy theory nonsense or crazy rambling. ---
**Author:** ![hotflungwok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@hotflungwok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hotflungwok)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-stenographer-snaps-starts-ranting-about-jesus-and-freemasons/671471/26 "2013-10-17T15:31:57Z")
What’s the difference? All I hear is nonsensical sounds that might be English but all mixed up and idiotic. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-stenographer-snaps-starts-ranting-about-jesus-and-freemasons/671471/27 "2013-10-17T15:34:29Z")
> [@hotflungwok](#): > > What’s the difference? All I hear is nonsensical sounds that might be English but all mixed up and idiotic. What she’s saying is crazy, but it’s intelligible at one reading. There’s one jumbled sentence but you can understand exactly what she means. If you want to hear glossolalia, which is “speechlike” but babbling and not comprehensible, check out some examples on YouTube. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-stenographer-snaps-starts-ranting-about-jesus-and-freemasons/671471/28 "2013-10-17T15:42:13Z")
> [@Gagundathar](#): > > On a more serious note, this does not surprise me. There have been rumors for years that quite a number of staffers in the highest levels of the federal government are [Dominionists](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_Theology). We can expect more of the same kind of aberrant behavior until some modicum of sanity is restored. Funnily enough, I had someone tell me yesterday that the Dominionists have been quietly assuming key positions in the US military. I have no idea how true that is but it wouldn’t surprise me at all. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-stenographer-snaps-starts-ranting-about-jesus-and-freemasons/671471/29 "2013-10-17T15:44:14Z")
Ah, now I know why one of my Facebook pubbie friends posted about how “our government” sent their stenographer to the loony bin. I swear some people will see a conspiracy in anything. ---
**Author:** ![hotflungwok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@hotflungwok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hotflungwok)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-stenographer-snaps-starts-ranting-about-jesus-and-freemasons/671471/30 "2013-10-17T15:47:01Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > What she’s saying is crazy, but it’s intelligible at one reading. There’s one jumbled sentence but you can understand exactly what she means. If you want to hear glossolalia, which is “speechlike” but babbling and not comprehensible, check out some examples on YouTube. Cmon, I didn’t aim that high… ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-stenographer-snaps-starts-ranting-about-jesus-and-freemasons/671471/31 "2013-10-17T15:48:41Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > How are they different from the Taliban? They shave. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-stenographer-snaps-starts-ranting-about-jesus-and-freemasons/671471/32 "2013-10-17T15:56:32Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > I thought one of the requirements for becoming a Mason was a belief in a deity. Yes, her rant was going fine up until she said that about the Freemasons. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-stenographer-snaps-starts-ranting-about-jesus-and-freemasons/671471/33 "2013-10-17T16:02:38Z")
I wonder if she was one of the Great Unpaid. If so, one can see how watching Congress dick around up close and personal while mortgage payments and utility bills come due might push someone over the edge. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-stenographer-snaps-starts-ranting-about-jesus-and-freemasons/671471/34 "2013-10-17T16:17:16Z")
If she was in the chamber, she was getting paid. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-stenographer-snaps-starts-ranting-about-jesus-and-freemasons/671471/35 "2013-10-17T17:06:25Z")
Wait… Jesus was a Freemason? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-stenographer-snaps-starts-ranting-about-jesus-and-freemasons/671471/36 "2013-10-17T17:10:57Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > How are they different from the Taliban? The Dominionists have more guns. ---
**Author:** ![Lasciel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e79b87/32.png) [@Lasciel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lasciel)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-stenographer-snaps-starts-ranting-about-jesus-and-freemasons/671471/37 "2013-10-17T17:59:48Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > The Dominionists have more guns. And fewer wives. (Which I think at least some of them are POed about.) ---
**Author:** ![Nancarrow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c37758/32.png) [@Nancarrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nancarrow)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-stenographer-snaps-starts-ranting-about-jesus-and-freemasons/671471/38 "2013-10-17T18:05:13Z")
[QUOTE=Crazy Woman] Had it been it would not have been. [/QUOTE] That’s rather Zen. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-stenographer-snaps-starts-ranting-about-jesus-and-freemasons/671471/39 "2013-10-17T18:06:17Z")
> [@Lasciel](#): > > And fewer wives. (Which I think at least some of them are POed about.) If you do marriage right, you don’t want more than one wife. And if you’re doing it wrong, same thing. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-stenographer-snaps-starts-ranting-about-jesus-and-freemasons/671471/40 "2013-10-17T18:19:59Z")
What I like is the guy banging the gavel over and over. Like that’ll work. “Oh, the gavel’s banging? I’ll stop being crazy now.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-stenographer-snaps-starts-ranting-about-jesus-and-freemasons/671471.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-stenographer-snaps-starts-ranting-about-jesus-and-freemasons/671471.md?page=3)